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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 10:00:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: mike heffner <mdheffner@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM:  conflict between apm and system clock on Inspiron 8100
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> 
> The 8100 seems to turn off interrupts itself and
> read the battery very
> slowly causing lost ticks (its taking > 1/100th of a
> second to do the
> read). 

Well, isn't that a nice feature.  Is there a
workaround for this hardware?

Thanks
Mike

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